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Popular open-science platform to stop hosting data and code amid funding concern(nature.com)
3 points by cossatot 6d ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 1mo ago
Forecasting earthquakes via ML should be possible but is very strongly limited by data. We have ~50 years of reasonably good seismological catalogs for most of the world. The seismic cycle (the sequence of major earthquake, reloading, major
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by cossatot 2mo ago
>The system is what geologists call a fault-controlled non-volcanic geothermal feature. These are quite common. Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas is a notable example. Most of the hot springs in Idaho are on fault lines, as are the h
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by cossatot 3mo ago
We're a century into it at least, even in nominal dollar terms, starting with Rockefeller as the first billionaire. I don't know whether John Arnold is spread too thin or not, but he's certainly top caliber and does a lot to
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by cossatot 5mo ago
Maybe, just maybe, this is of obvious utility to the many people who have needs that are not yours? I very regularly need to interact with my work through a python interpreter. My work is scientific programming. So the variables might be ar
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by cossatot 6mo ago
I use both gvim on linux and macvim on mac for a lot of things--not 'real' coding, typically, but opening and editing scripts and config files, writing in markdown, etc; I'm usually opening these from dolphin or finder. In th
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by cossatot 7mo ago
Thanks. I've got an OpenAI subscription and tried this in the past, and got a handful of results, but nothing comprehensive. Perhaps it is better now, or I could change the way I ask.
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Ask HN: How to exhaustively search the scientific literature?
3 points by cossatot 7mo ago|3 comments
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by cossatot 8mo ago
Interesting... A few years later, the gravitational deflection of the Himalayas on a plumb line by Airy proved less than expected, which suggested that mountains have 'roots' that extend below them, displacing more dense rock--lik
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by cossatot 8mo ago
And wine glass stains are the only way to know your paper has been graded.
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by cossatot 8mo ago
It does on my fedora KDE machine at least. It is probably in the top 5 usability improvements of linux over mac in my world.
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by cossatot 9mo ago
Do you think desalinating 10% of the world's ocean water is feasible? What are the energy resources necessary to do that?
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by cossatot 10mo ago
There were no alphabets in the Americas before European contact. Mayan had written mathematics and hieroglyphics, and some Quechuan speaking peoples had string that had symbolic knots that had some mathematical representation (I don't
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by cossatot 1y ago
They are so frequently intertwined
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by cossatot 1y ago
Rocks could be potential sources. Crystals that large are by no means rare, with feldspars being the most common on Earth and perhaps on most rocky planets (quartz is well known of course but I think would be rare without the magmatic fract
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by cossatot 1y ago
Don't quote me on this but I think a lot of the change has to do with fire and flood suppression. Certainly on the Konza prairie and similar areas, small trees (post oaks and eastern red cedar) grew in natural fire breaks like bluffs,
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by cossatot 1y ago
Because it's for your kid's bed. At 3 AM the previous night, they peed the bed, so you got the other one out and put it on, throwing this one in the laundry room. Then, today you washed it but the one on the bed already is still i
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by cossatot 1y ago
This is evident in his description of programming in his later years: Time and time again I would send my friend Dave Walker an email declaring that Javascript (or something else) was utterly broken, incapable of executing the simplest pro
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by cossatot 1y ago
Similar to the flood analysis others have mentioned, this can be used to create databases of buildings with the number of stories for each, which is important for understanding how each building will respond to various catastrophes (earthqu
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by cossatot 1y ago
Having read Eric Berger's Reentry about SpaceX and having a few friends who work at Tesla, my impression is that those organizations are not too dissimilar. They are also populated largely by millenial and gen Z people because older
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by cossatot 2y ago
This seems to have happened on 26 Feb 2023 as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/instage...
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by cossatot 2y ago
The cuts aren't performance based. They're based on the ease of dismissal. The voluntary resignations are what they are--I can't fault anyone for taking a good deal, and from what I have heard (married to someone in the gover
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Analog iteration for solving matrix equations with in-memory computing(science.org)
1 points by cossatot 2y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 2y ago
I wonder how much the Van Allen radiation belts are a contributor to the Fermi paradox, i.e. how much they contributed to providing a suitable place for life to originate and flourish, and how rare they are. The belts themselves are an effe
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by cossatot 2y ago
No, because the amount of money you have in a bank account accumulates linearly, so you can only pay up to what you have put in. With insurance, you can get a payout more than what you have contributed up to that point, which is necessary f
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by cossatot 2y ago
I've tought myself a lot of things over the course of my life and am a huge proponent of self-education, but a lot of the 'learning how to learn' had to happen in graduate school. There are few environments that provide the r
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by cossatot 2y ago
Yes, it's a big one in my formative years as a kayaker. I've used the handle in a lot of places and I think you're the first person that's recognized it.
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by cossatot 2y ago
I'm a Random Internet Guy who is a professional in the field (earthquake hazards, not tsunamis in particular).
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by cossatot 2y ago
Yes, the probability of tsunamogenic landslides do increase during earthquakes, but it's still quite unlikely for an event of this magnitude tens of km from the continental slope; this is why a properly-calibrated tiered system would b
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by cossatot 2y ago
Based on the location and focal mechanism of the earthquake ( https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095651... ), this is a strike-slip earthquake on the plate boundary between the Pacific and Gorda&#

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